(note from showhost: to those of you who are expecting a sado-masachist book you will be disappointed!)
Having just
finished The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith, featuring a private
detective with a strange name and an attractive assistant, I have now read this
book which features a private detective with a strange name and an attractive
assistant.
But there the
similarity ends as Cormoran Strike was a hard up disabled ex-soldier whereas in
this book we have Thomas Time who is quite well off in the private
investigation business with his young, colourful assistant, Sam.
Thomas takes on a
case of looking for the teenage daughter of Digby and Philippa Renfrew who has
absconded from her private school in Dorset.
Thomas starts his
investigation at this school where he meets the domineering headteacher Rachel
Carstairs, who he nicknames Miss Whiplash.
His enquiries then
lead him to some of London’s sleazy nightclubs and he gets himself involved
with Joey Tully, a gangland boss and also some Russian oligarchs and ends up
being pursued by both sets of criminals who are determined to kill him.
This is a great
story with plenty of action and several dead bodies but
all rather in James Bond style and I preferred the more down to earth and
believable detective Cormoran Strike.
This is quite a
change from the previous book by GJT that I read which was also set in London,
but in the sixteen hundreds.
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